From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934728Ab3GRX2J (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:28:09 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f52.google.com ([209.85.160.52]:53559 "EHLO mail-pb0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933481Ab3GRX2H (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:28:07 -0400 From: David Ahern To: acme@ghostprotocols.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Ahern , Ingo Molnar , Frederic Weisbecker , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Olsa Subject: [PATCH] perf record/top: handle ENODEV on default cycles event Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 17:27:59 -0600 Message-Id: <1374190079-28507-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Some systems (e.g., VMs on qemu-0.13 with the default vcpu model) report an unsupported CPU model: Performance Events: unsupported p6 CPU model 2 no PMU driver, software events only. Subsequent invocations of perf fail with: The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 19 (No such device) for event (cycles). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information. No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured? Add ENODEV to the list of errno's to fallback to cpu-clock. Signed-off-by: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jiri Olsa --- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index a635461..8bed0c1 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@ out: bool perf_evsel__fallback(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int err, char *msg, size_t msgsize) { - if ((err == ENOENT || err == ENXIO) && + if ((err == ENOENT || err == ENXIO || err == ENODEV) && evsel->attr.type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE && evsel->attr.config == PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES) { /* -- 1.7.10.1